digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
Mir’s, acting in the world replaced by mere digital presence.
Above all, the old newspapers and broadcasters created the possibility of a single national conversation. In many advanced democracies there is now no common debate, let alone a common narrative. People have always had different opinions. Now they have different facts.
The deeper I went, the more I noticed this phenomenon all around me: individuals not guided by legible principles or beliefs, but acting as members of groups playing yin to the other’s yang—well versus weak; awake versus sheep; righteous versus depraved. Binaries where thinking once lived.
us versus them tribalism
The more we accept the premise that we must be online for everything—liking, loathing, sharing—and the more we accept the tacit contract of trading privacy in exchange for app-enabled convenience, the more data points tech companies are able to hoover up about us. And with that data, they create our real digital doppelgangers—not the aspirational
... See moreThe digitally converged world is simultaneously hot and cool, real and faked, commercial and nonprofit, entertaining and political, interactive and passive—it blurs and melds everything together. Our infinite commercial choices and personal expressions are layered through complex networked relationships among media.
the cultural chaos of fragmentation that displaced the comfortable universal norms of appointment television.